Switching to Perl 5.16

[Frank Schima]

On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:

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> On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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>> On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> It seems to me that we should be switching the default perl in Macports from version 5.12 to 5.16. Are there any objections to this? If not, I will create a Trac ticket about this.
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>> do you mean 5.18, or are we desiring to continue to be behind the current stable perl for some reason? ;-)
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> If you think that version is stable enough to move forward on. I'm hoping ricci will comment. One problem is that we lack a perl5.18 port. It will require more work to add it too because now all p5-* ports will need to add a p5.18 subport. A ticket for that seems like a no brainer at this point however. 

I just created one:
<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39473>

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